What are you all up to today? - part 3

Oh dear, I am in a foreign country where I do not speak the language - nor have had any tuition in it - have left my passport behind.

Bless you Wales for understanding my predicament.

Powys Castle - wonderful!,  Chirk tomorrow, where next? LLandidrod wells?  You have been warned!

The Lake in Llandrindod is a lovely walk around, plus The Hall at Abbey Cwn Hir is worth a visit.

Ian: Great news about Henry and all her ducklings. Sensible mum keeping them out of harms way for a while. 

Helen: So glad you are enjoying your holiday. Sounds wonderful 

Bakers: Have a really great time in NZ

All great here. Having a wonderful time with youngest son, DIL, and 2 grandchildren. We all went down a mine yesterday morning. Very interesting and great fun. Afternoon on Runswick Bay beach Then lovely evening sitting outside the pub in Staithes in the evening sunshine eating crab cakes and chips 

Milliehull great to here from you. Glad you're having a lovely time.  Can one describe a going down the mine as fun??? Being from down south I too found the whole experience fascinating but so glad it wouldn't have to be my employment! So glad it was warm enough to sit outsoutside the pub to est in the evening, must be warmer than here!

 Thank you e for your good wishes we don't leave til Wednesday arrive Friday ?

At home with the piano tuner this morning, the dulcet tones of piano tuning have just finished for another year. 

I'm having a day of more or less idleness. There's all sorts gong on outside, moving stock about, getting pens ready for imminent callings, and pens for the subsequent offspring. But, after exhausting myself cooking and baking yesterday there's more than enough left to feed an army, so I can loll about and read. I'm working my way through all of Ian Rankin's Rebus books. I haven't reread them since I bought them when they were published, and it's interesting to go back to the beginning and see how the characters have developed. 

Thank you for all the good wishes for Henry and family - I'll pass them on

They came for breakfast again today, but I saw how alert she was when a magpie squarked in the distance. She was chasing one off later in the morning.

Up at 6am this morning to do a bit of work (actually paid work!) then later a trip to the tip with the garden waste.

Off to wash the front of the caravan shortly, then cut the grass, then might watch the cycling (or wait for the highlights? Decisions, decisions......)

Just had a topsy turvy couple of days as we've had our 30+ year old hot water system(tank and all) replaced. Had to move all sorts of things so all radiators etc could be drained down. Gave us a good excuse to do some reorganising

all done now, nice neat job, trouble is we've now got the heating on to test the system and check for airlocks. It's a bit warm

a day later, test of new system had a hiccup, radiators getting really hot but no hot water. OH and plumber now chasing air round the system‼? Some very strange gurgling noises

(Mrs Steve)

At home with the piano tuner this morning, the dulcet tones of piano tuning have just finished for another year. 

Its  a  long  time  since  I  watched the  piano  tuner  fettling  up  the  old  upright  my  sister  was  taught  on  !  The  tuner  came  regularly  &  I  just  loved  watching  him  work,  then  he  would  borrow  a  tea towel  or  similar  &  lay  it  over  the  keys  and  continue  playing  merrily,  much  to  my  amazement.  It  was  only  after  I  started  to  go  to  school  that  my  mates  pointed  out  that  the  cloth  was  an  irrelevance,  'cos  the  tuner  had  been  totally  blind  from  birth  ==  Thats  when  I  first  discovered  what  it's  like  to  feel  a  "right  berk"   

Now  its  my  turn  to  hope  for  help  today 

Just  got  myself  working  on  my  nice  new  Kindle,  but  altho'  I  have  managed  to  get  it  registered  &  find  my  way  round  it  reasonably  well  {  Its  much  different  from  my  original,  but  thats  having  problems  so  its  been  replaced },  what  I  am  having  probs  with  is  the  over-sized  engineering  paws  on  the  ends  of  my  arms  !!  Does  anybody  know  if  Kindles  react  favourably  to  the  silicon  rubber  tipped  stylii  ( styluses  ??)   I  could  always  adapt  a  cover  to  hold  one  of  them  if  they  work  well. If  not  I'll  just  have  to  reduce  my  expenditure  on  E-books  'cos  it'll  take  ages  to  type  out  a  book  title  if  I  have  to  correct  it  8  or  10  times.  Either  that  or  I  could  order  the  book(s)  before  my  evening  meal  which  might,  just  might  sharpen  my  keyboard  skills,  if  not  my  finger-tips !

Brian